Nitin Bathla
@nitin-bathla.bsky.social
Urban Studies Lecturer @ETH, Human Geog Postdoc @UZH. Debates and Interventions Editor @urbangeography.bsky.social Reviews Editor @urbanpolitical.bsky.social #politicalecology #infrastructure #transdisciplinarity #extendedurbanisation www.nitinbathla.com
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In our latest episode, you will hear: Kevin Sheridan, Richard Wolff and Laura Colini; as well as the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social .
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October 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In our latest episode, you will hear: Kevin Sheridan, Richard Wolff and Laura Colini; as well as the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social .
urbanpolitical.online/97-in-loving...
urbanpolitical.online/97-in-loving...
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Not good:
Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.
11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.
11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
New data shows governments now planning more fossil fuel production in coming decades than they were in 2023
Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown.
Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production for the coming decades than they did in 2023, the last time comparable data was compiled. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Not good:
Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.
11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
Out of 20 major producers of fossil fuels around the world—including the US, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia & UK—only the UK, Australia and Norway plan to reduce production of oil and gas by 2030.
11 countries surveyed increased plans for fossil fuel production.
The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.
Very proud to say that our special issue with @urbanstudiesjournal.com is now all up online!
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We address the authoritarian turn in urban governance globally, as neoliberal policies lose legitimacy and require more coercive means of enforcement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025
This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...
journals.sagepub.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The special issue on authoritarian neoliberal urbanism is now out. Happy to be featured in it and thanks to the editors - @gfearn.bsky.social Güldem Özatagan, Ayda Eraydin for this very timely work.
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Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens
By Morten Nielsen
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...
By Morten Nielsen
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...
August 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Interventions | Spaces of Withdrawal: Compassionate Cities Without Citizens
By Morten Nielsen
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...
By Morten Nielsen
👉 www.ijurr.org/article/spac...
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the #CFP for the next meeting of the Swiss #Anthropology Association (5-7 Feb 202, Fribourg) is out, including our panel A, 'Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making'
w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Paper Proposals Annual Meeting 2026 - Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft
The Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) promotes fundamental research in connection with the main anthropological institutions through its scientific and cultural events.
www.sagw.ch
August 7, 2025 at 8:10 AM
the #CFP for the next meeting of the Swiss #Anthropology Association (5-7 Feb 202, Fribourg) is out, including our panel A, 'Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making'
w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
w @nitin-bathla.bsky.social & Sabrina Stallone
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
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CH-based peeps in particular, the #CFP for the 2026 SEG meeting is out:
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making"
(single slot panels only, so likely selective)
w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making"
(single slot panels only, so likely selective)
w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
Paper Proposals Annual Meeting 2026 - Schweizerische Ethnologische Gesellschaft
The Swiss Anthropological Association (SAA) promotes fundamental research in connection with the main anthropological institutions through its scientific and cultural events.
www.sagw.ch
July 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
CH-based peeps in particular, the #CFP for the 2026 SEG meeting is out:
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making"
(single slot panels only, so likely selective)
w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Consider our panel A, "Speculation, Futurity, the Otherwise: Material Incompletion as Future-Making"
(single slot panels only, so likely selective)
w Sabrina Stallone and @nitin-bathla.bsky.social
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
June 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mamdani: "I've already had to start get used to the fact that the president will talk about how I look, how I sound, where I'm from, ultimately bc he wants to distract from what I'm fighting for. I'm fighting for the the very working people he ran a campaign to empower that he has since betrayed."
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
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🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
May 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧱✨ Welcome to the Radical Housing Journal ✨🧱
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
We publish research that refuses neutrality, sides with struggles for housing justice, and stands with people fighting displacement, precarity, and exploitation.
📢 Read our Manifesto to see what we stand for: radicalhousingjournal.org/about/manife...
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This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
How Cities Can Transform Democracy by Ross Beveridge and Philippe Koch
As processes of dispossession have come to define cities across the globe, they have also deprived their residents of the opportunity to co-produce urban space.
www.societyandspace.org
June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This is for urban scholars of democracy who are seeking positivity and inspiration in bleak times: www.societyandspace.org/book-review-...
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Have you listened to our latest episode yet?
urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur...
@clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.
urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur...
@clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.
91 – The Suburban Frontier – Urban Political Podcast
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June 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Have you listened to our latest episode yet?
urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur...
@clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.
urbanpolitical.online/91-the-subur...
@clairemercer.bsky.social's book details how the “suburban frontier” has become the place where Africa’s middle classes are shaped.
Roger Keil, Mariam Genes and the host @nitin-bathla.bsky.social review the book.
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June 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and just? A reflection from a project workshop that concluded our project "the Urbanization of Global Climate Finance" blog.geo.uzh.ch/financing-ju...
Financing just climate action in Mexican municipalities: challenges and learnings | GIUZ Blog
blog.geo.uzh.ch
June 4, 2025 at 5:15 PM
How can cities in the Global South finance climate action in ways that are both effective and just? A reflection from a project workshop that concluded our project "the Urbanization of Global Climate Finance" blog.geo.uzh.ch/financing-ju...
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🧵1/ How can armed resistance enable—not undermine—democracy, peacebuilding, and the revitalisation of Indigenous socio-ecological relations?
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
In the Annals of the AAG, I write about post/decolonial approaches to territory & the #SalweenPeacePark
doi.org/10.1080/2469... @geographers.bsky.social
So happy to be presenting at TU Braunschweig Reimagining Infrastructure Lifelines alongside @oliverressler.bsky.social among others.
Will be on the train for the next 9 hours on my way to the conference “Lifelines: Re-Imagining Infrastructures between Culture and Construction“ and related screening of my film “The Desert Lives” in Braunschweig.
www.tu-braunschweig.de/fileadmin/Re...
www.tu-braunschweig.de/fileadmin/Re...
May 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
So happy to be presenting at TU Braunschweig Reimagining Infrastructure Lifelines alongside @oliverressler.bsky.social among others.
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my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
Contact Zones of Climate Preconstruction in Coastal Africa
This essay advances the notion of coastal contact zones as heuristic lens, and develops the conceptual framework of climate preconstruction, bringing them together to better understand the challenges....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
my conceptual piece from the #PRECURBICA is out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
many thanks to @ijurresearch.bsky.social editors and reviewers for a very constructive process! @zasb.unibas.ch
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Here we come with episode V of our series The Urban Lives of Property: 88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries.
urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver...
(Listen via our website or Spotify)
This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.
urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver...
(Listen via our website or Spotify)
This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.
April 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Here we come with episode V of our series The Urban Lives of Property: 88 - In Conversation with Heather Dorries.
urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver...
(Listen via our website or Spotify)
This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.
urbanpolitical.online/88-in-conver...
(Listen via our website or Spotify)
This talk addresses the intersections of settler colonialism and racial capitalism in urban property regimes.
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Such a privilege to hear from and be in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social as she spoke about the intertwined nature of climate justice and housing justice in these times of disasters and "end times fascism." @challengeineq.bsky.social challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/
Naomi Klein | Challenge Inequality
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May 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Such a privilege to hear from and be in conversation with @naomiaklein.bsky.social as she spoke about the intertwined nature of climate justice and housing justice in these times of disasters and "end times fascism." @challengeineq.bsky.social challengeinequality.luskin.ucla.edu/naomi-klein/
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A collection of essays in Economy and Society that honours the life and work of Sami Zubaida
www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...
www.tandfonline.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A collection of essays in Economy and Society that honours the life and work of Sami Zubaida
www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...
www.tandfonline.com/journals/res...
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Why is the US-aligned Irish Government not, at the very least, condemning Israeli war crimes - the use of starvation as a weapon of war?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
Palestinian children face starvation under Israel’s total Gaza blockade
UNICEF says children face ‘growing risk of starvation, illness and death’ as Israel bars food and other aid deliveries.
www.aljazeera.com
May 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Why is the US-aligned Irish Government not, at the very least, condemning Israeli war crimes - the use of starvation as a weapon of war?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....
April 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....
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“The US has imposed tariffs on Chinese products? Transit through Malaysia to ‘transform’ into Southeast Asian goods!”
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs
Asian neighbours wary of becoming staging posts for trade actually destined for US
on.ft.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
“The US has imposed tariffs on Chinese products? Transit through Malaysia to ‘transform’ into Southeast Asian goods!”
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT
Chinese exporters ‘wash’ products in third countries to avoid Donald Trump’s tariffs - on.ft.com/4k2ZYnm via @FT
Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
Urban methods for the pluriverse: City: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access
We’re here to help
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May 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Extremely generative review «Urban Methods for the Pluriverse» of my book Researching Otherwise by #IndivarJonnalagadda in @city-journal.bsky.social. Read here - www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....